Chris Curry at The New Yorker called last week for an illustration to accompany a piece by Ken Auletta about the iPad and its effect on the book business, digital publishing and e-books.

This is my first assignment from The New Yorker, and I had a little thrill seeing it in the magazine yesterday. I went down to Barnes & Noble to get a copy before mine arrived in the mail, and there was a video hyping the Nook playing in the quiet store.